I had not intended it, the temperatures have been just too cold. My gardening hand was forced though, when I received a gift of six very healthy-looking herb plants, a clay planter and a large bag of compost. Separately, I was also the lucky recipient of a psychedelic salad box. The box is not psychedelic, what is in it, in packets of seed, is supposed to be. They are staying firmly closed. Anyway, I'll have to negotiate the corner of someone's green house to cultivate the cucumbers that are part of the psychedelic mix.
As I said, my hand was forced. This afternoon in-between heavy gobs of freezing rain and hailstones - they were truly mini ice balls-I ran in and out of the cellar, where opened bags of compost are stored, to grab a bag of the stuff to fill the planter. To allow spread, I could only place two of the hardier herb plants in it. The planter has depth and not too much length. I found a space against a wall, (actually, a few inches forward of it) to plant the Borage, having first been assured that it would be okay and as a bonus, appear annually, (hmm). Chives grow anywhere and don't seem to mind what type of climate they are faced with, within reason. I stuffed the chive into a pot and left it near the other plants.
The remaining two herb plants are too tender to grow outside here, even in our warmer periods of the year. I say that advisedly, as, yes, I agree it is all relative, but, to my mind and body thermostat, we do not have, as a rule, what I would call a summer, at least not with any continuity. According to gardening advice on one of the herb species, my own sixth sense about our warmth levels seems to be right. .........."it is sensitive to the cold".
It isn't the only one, I thought.
My two Aloe Vera plants are happy souls and easy to please. Joining them on my kitchen window sill, are two new pots of green leafy things. There's every risk of sunburn there in the mornings for those tender leaves. You can see it can't you, it will become the daily shuffle dance of the new plant pots from one side of the house to the other.
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